Former LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu's comments about his drug use while playing for the Tigers were just one example of questionable decisions by Tigers players in the last month.

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The LSU football program was found to be second only to Ivy League-type Vanderbilt in the Southeastern Conference in a graduation rate study released last fall. The Tigers came in at a 77 percent rate of graduates between 2008 and 2011. Vanderbilt was first at 85 percent.

This would make some recent comments by present and recently past LSU football players that much more alarming:

1. "I quit counting at 10," former LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu told an unidentified NFL assistant coach when asked how many times he failed drug tests before being dismissed from the LSU football team last August. ...